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Duke  University  Librar.es 

General  orders. 
Conf  Pam  12mo  #747 


HEAD  QRS.  ARMY  NORTHERN  VA. 
.   ,  April  3,  1864. 

GENERAL  ORDERS, ) 
No.  26.  S 

I.  Paragraph  II  of  General.  Orders,  No.  10,  of  1863;  paragraph  I  of  General 
Orders,  No*  70,  of  1863,  and  Circular  of  the '8th  of  March,  from  these  Head  Quar- 
ters, are  revoked. 

II.  When  a  camp  is  located,  the  brigade  inspector  and  quartermaster  will  make 
a  thorough  inspection  of  the  premises,  -and  note  the  condition  of  things  at  the 
time  of  the  occupation  of  the  ground  by  the  troops.  In  case  of  a  command  less 
than  a  brigade,  the  inspection  will  be  made  by  the  officer  in  command  of  the  de- 
tachment, and  the  quartermaster. 

III.  When  a  camp  is  broken  up  and  the  ground  vacated'  by  the  troops  (or 
sooner,  if  authorized  by  the  General  commanding),  the  officers  designated  in  the 
preceding  paragraph,  together  with  a  third  party,  to  be  selected  by  the  owner  of 
the  property  or  his  representative,  shall  make  a  second  examination  of  the  pre- 
mises, for  the  purpose  of  determining  to  what  extent  the  property  has  been  in- 
jured by  the  troops  camped  thereon.  In  making  this  assessment,  the  board  will 
report,  separately  and  in  duplicate  in  each  case,  the  injury  regarded  us  necessary 
for  the  maintenance  and  comfort  of  the  troops,  and  the  damages  considered  un- 
necessary and  wanton,  and  not  previously  embraced  in  the  regular  Tri-monthly 
Inspection  Reports,  and  already  paid  for;  and  will  designate  the  portion  of  the 
command  by  which  the  latter  were  committed,  in  order  that  the  amount  thereof 
may  be  stopped  against  the  pay  of  those  offending.  When  it  is  impossible  to  lo- 
cate the  blame  on  any  particular  portion  of  the  command,  the  amount  of  damages 
reported  "  wanton"  will  be  apportioned  among  the  several  regiments  or  detach- 
ments of  the  whole,  in  proportion  to  their  respective  strength  ;  and  when  the  as- 
sessment has  received  the  approval  of  the  General  commanding,  the  quartermas- 
ters will  collect  the  quotas  from  their  respective  commands,  and  pay  the  same  to 
the  owner  of  the  property,  or  his  proper  representative,  taking  his  receipt  for  the 
same*  The  officer  commanding  the  brigade  or  detachment  will  forward  one  copy 
of  the  report  of  the  assessment,  with  the  owner's  receipt  for  the  amount  thereof, 
for  transmission  to  the  Quartermaster  General.  LTpon  the  duplicate  copy  will  be 
endorsed  a  statement  of  the  payment  made,  and  this  will  be  retained  and  placed 
on  file  at  the  head  quarters  of  the  command. 

IV.  When  an  assessment  of  the  injury  deemed  necessary  in  consequence  of 
the  occupation  of  property  by  troops,  shall  have  received  the  approval  of  the  Ge- 
neral commanding,  the  quarterm aster  of  the  command  camped  thereon  will  pay 
the  owner,  or  his  proper  representative,  for  so  much  thereof  as  is  embraced  in  the 
Regulation  allowance  of  fuel  or  other  supplies  properly  chargeable  to  the  Quarter- 


master's  Department  and  at  the  rates  established  throughout  the  army  or  depart- 
ment. Upon  one  copy  of  the  report  of  the  assessment  he  will  take  the  receipt  ol 
the  owner,  or  his  proper  representative,  for  the  amount  paid  him,  and  retain  this 
as  a  voucher,  to  be  transmitted  to  the  Quartermaster  General  with  his  next  regu-r 
lar  Returns.  On  the  duplicate  copy  of  the  report  of  the  assessment,  to  be  givan 
to  the  owner  of  the  property  or  his  proper  representative,  the  quartermaster  will 
endorse  a  full  statement  of  the  payment  he  has  made  on  account  thereof,  for  the 
information  and  guidance  of  those  to  whom  the  War  Department  may  entrust  the 
settlement  of  such  claims  against  the  government. 

V.  It  having  been  reported  that  the  97th  paragraph  of  the  Regulations  is  not 
properly  observed  throughout  the  army,  the  General  commanding  directs  that 
special  attention  be  called  to  it,  and  that  commanding  officers  be  held  accounta- 
ble for  a  strict  compliance  with  all  its  requirements  in  their  respective  commands. 


By  command  of  General  R.  E.  Lee. 


W.  H.  TAYLOR,  , 

A.  A.  General. 


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